From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 17:09:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16026 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dynamic.local.net (max1-30.columbus.megsinet.net [209.81.172.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15983 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) Received: from insomnia.local.net (jmutter@insomnia.local.net [10.0.0.3]) by dynamic.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16344; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:14:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA26374; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:14:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:13:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: "Gene Byers Jr." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnetd question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm kinda new to unix and FreeBSD, and I was wondering if you might have any ideas about a problem I'm having with telnet. > > I have my secondary DNS running on FreeBSD. When I try to telnet into it, it gives me the login prompt, but when I enter the correct password, it tells me the password is incorrect and prompts me with another login prompt. > > Do you have any ideas? You're not trying to log in as root over telnet are you? It sounds like you may be. If you are, that's no-no. Log in as a regular user and then 'su' to root. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message